INDUSTRIALISATION OF DAIRY FARMING

Early day motion 27, tabled 8 May 2013 by Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 14 members.

That this House notes that pressures are building for the increasing industrialisation of UK dairy farming and that a growing number of cows are being kept indoors for all or most of the year, many of which are pushed to extremely high milk yields; further notes the 2009 report by the European Food Safety Authority which concluded that breeding for high milk yield is the major factor causing poor health and welfare in cows; and believes that the factory farming of dairy cows must be brought to an end.

Signatures by party: Labour 7, Liberal Democrat 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Green 1.